Mortality in Lesotho, 2025

Lesotho
2025
Life expectancy: 58.2
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Lesotho is projected at 58.2 years in 2025: 60.9 for women and 55.4 for men, a gap of 5.4 years. 24,376 people are projected to die; 27.4% of them would be 65 or older and 15.3% children under five. The most common age at death is projected to be 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Life expectancy at birth
58.2
Women
60.9
Men
55.4
Life expectancy at 65
13.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
52.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
67.2
Deaths
24,376
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
457
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
349
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2025's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
049.3760.9960.955.4
1-43.783.8262.957.9
5-91.161.2959.854.7
10-141.031.1655.250.1
15-191.912.3250.445.3
20-243.154.0545.940.8
25-294.675.9341.636.6
30-346.318.3437.532.6
35-398.3011.5433.628.9
40-4410.3114.9829.925.5
45-4912.9719.1826.422.3
50-5416.5924.4723.019.3
55-5921.4031.0119.816.4
60-6429.5242.1016.713.8
65-6940.3955.8014.011.4
70-7452.1473.8111.59.3
75-7968.4299.769.27.4
80-84100.36142.917.05.7
85-89163.89209.265.04.2
90-94250.38297.013.63.2
95-99364.40401.702.72.4
100+477.58549.152.11.8